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Numerical Heat Transfer, Part A: Applications
An International Journal of Computation and Methodology
Volume 73, 2018 - Issue 10
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Original Articles

A discrete multicomponent droplet evaporation model; effects of O2-enrichment, steam injection, and EGR on evaporation of diesel droplet

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Pages 721-742 | Received 28 Jan 2018, Accepted 10 May 2018, Published online: 14 Jun 2018
 

Abstract

A discrete multicomponent (DMC) model for droplet evaporation in convective ambient is developed. Three different sets of correlations for Nusselt and Sherwood number are examined. The model is compared with experimental data for single and multicomponent droplet evaporation at different conditions and the most suitable set of correlations is selected. Having validated model, the diesel droplet evaporation under different ambient conditions and compositions is investigated. Increasing of oxygen mass fraction in N2–O2 mixture ambient from 0 to 1 first decreases and then increases the lifetime. Steam addition enhances the evaporation rate and it affects evaporation more significantly at higher temperatures. Exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) results in slight variations in droplet lifetime and its heating period.

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